Feminism, literature and rape narratives
Subtitle: violence and violation
By: edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson.
Contributors: Gunne, Sorcha, 1980-; Brigley, Zoë.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 27; Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 27.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780415806084
Subjects: Rape in literature; Violence in literature; Women in literature; Feminist literature -- History and criticism
Description: "The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution to the fields of literary studies and feminism, since while other volumes have focused on retroactive portrayals of rape in literature, to date none has focused entirely on the subversive work that is being done to retheorize sexual violence." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rape by proxy in contemporary Caribbean women's fiction / Carine M. Mardorossian; title: Sabotaging the language of pride : Toni Morrison's representations of rape / Tessa Roynon; title: Revising Chicana womanhood : gender violence in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Robin E. Field; title: Between 'Awra and Arab literary feminism : sexual violence and representational crisis in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero / Anna Ball; title: Writing rape : the politics of resistance in Yvonne Vera's novels / Fiona McCann; title: Il/legitimacy : sexual violence, mental health and resisting abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten good seconds of silence / Susan Billingham; title: Testimony and silence : sexual violence and the Holocaust / Zoë Waxman; title: 'Mum is the word' : gender violence, displacement and the refugee camp in Yasmin Ladha's documentary-fiction / Belén Martín-Lucas; title: Double violation? : (not) talking about sexual violence in contemporary South Asia / Ananya Jahanara Kabir; title: Questioning truth and reconciliation : writing rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the dust / Sorcha Gunne; title: Signifying rape : problems of representing sexual violence on stage / Lisa Fitzpatrick; title: The wound and the mask : rape, recovery and poetry in Pascale Petit's The wounded deer: fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo / Zoë Brigley Thompson; title: Rape, power, realism and the fantastic on television / Lorna Jowett.